Oh no! The dreaded perfurmance appraisal! You're supposed to take it in stride, see your weaknesses and strengths, but really it's a stressful exercise in office politics. And when it's done by the chief bunappraiser, who cannot be bribed, well, you'll wish you'd resigned like Palin.

Ooooh Fleetie, you know more about Canadian history than I do, and I'm Canadian!! *blush with embarrassment*. It's interesting though, although Canada is bilingual on a federal level, the only bilingual province is New Brunswick. Quebec is officially unilingual (French) and every other province is officially unilingual (English) Confused yet??

It's just that I am in the habit of checking out the "on this day" page on Wikipedia nearly every day. I did it this lunchtime, and that particular fact stuck in my memory until this evening, when by extreme coincidence, it became relevant and useful!

I know nothing of geography or history, having dropped both the very moment I could at school!